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Sunday Film News Round Up -- May 22nd, 2011

The 64th editon of Cannes ended tonight with a fairly shocking Palme D'or winner in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, which received mixed reviews after it opened earlier in the week. And you don't even have to wait a year to see it. It opens at the Enzian on June 17.

Deadline has a list of all of the Cannes award winners. The biggest surprise to me? Kirsten Dunst won best actress. Did you ever think in your life that you would see that sentence?

Because I never thought I'd ever have to write it.

What else did we learn this week, aside from don't joke about being a Nazi? Let's see:

-A Straw Dogs remake? Oh, but the dude is a screenwriter instead of a mathematician and the British townies are backwoods Tennessee hicks? GENIUS. I think James Marsden can step seamlessly into Dustin Hoffman's shoes. They're basically actors of the same caliber. Those people who say there are no good ideas left in Hollywood are totally fucked in the head.

-Here is the first trailer for Pedro Aladovar's The Skin I Live In, featuring Antonia Banderas. It played at Cannes this morning and all of the buzz I've heard has been positive. I did think "The Skin I Inhabit" was a better translation of the title, personally.

-I know it's just a teaser, but this Tintin trailer doesn't feel at all like a Spielberg movie.

-Spike Lee took to his Twitter account to answer the folks who still ask him 22 years later, "Why did Mookie throw the garbage can through the window of Sal's?". (Here's a screencap so I don't have to give you eight links.)